The Show Info Dialog

The Show Info dialog displays overall information about your AccuRev work environment.

Opening a Show Info Dialog

Choose Tools > Info from the GUI main menu.

Show Info Tab Layout

Principal

Your AccuRev user A person who uses an AccuRev client program to access (read and/or change) the data in the AccuRev repository. Access is granted only to those who login with a 'username' that was previously registered in the AccuRev repository. See login. identity, as established by AccuRev's Login command.

Host

The name or IP address of the client machine on which the AccuRev GUI is running.

Server name

The name or IP address of the server machine on which the AccuRev Server process is running. You can switch Servers as part of the login process.

Port

The port number on which the AccuRev Server listens to client requests.

ACCUREV_BIN

The directory on the client machine where AccuRev executables are stored. In older versions of AccuRev, you sometimes needed to create an environment variable with this name. This is no longer necessary.

Client time

The system time on the client machine. (The parenthesized integer is the number of seconds since Jan 1, 1970.)

Server time

The system time on the server machine. (The parenthesized integer is the number of seconds since Jan 1, 1970.)

If the client time and server time differ by more than 5 seconds, many AccuRev commands fail to execute. Use the Tools > Synchronize Time command to fix this problem.